There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

For months, NASA was unable to open the sample container from the Osiris-Rex asteroid probe. It was found to contain over 51 grams. NASA's Osiris-Rex probe has brought a total of 121.6 grams of ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

TL;DR: NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe delivered samples from asteroid Bennu in 2023. Researchers have since analyzed these samples to study their contents. When NASA announced it had collected ...

The rocks and dust safely delivered by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023 contain ... the van-sized space probe dropped off its capsule full of asteroid debris as it swung past Earth on ...

This image, taken by NASA's Osiris-Rex probe in December 2018, shows the asteroid Bennu. Scientists have identified 14 of the 20 amino acids used by terrestrial life, as well as the five nucleic acid ...

For an OSIRIS-REx probe that launched from Earth, collected asteroid samples, and returned home again all in the span of less than a decade, it's an accomplishment up there with the most ambitious ...

The analysis of the Bennu samples is the scientific payoff for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which in 2016 launched a probe to the asteroid on a multiyear journey. The spacecraft jabbed the ...